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Over your lifetime there are many milestones along the way to indicate where you’re going, and how well your journey is coming along. These things take the form of grades, diplomas, valedictorians, extra curricular activities, a kind word from a teacher, scholarships or contests. Then later in life they become raises, promotions, bonuses, awards, peer reviews, performance reviews, and so forth. We are …

Upon graduation I wanted a few things: I wanted to be hired by Pixar. I wanted to win awards. I wanted to get hired as a director. I wanted to make movies. I wanted a lot of things that required other people’s permission. With thousands of you graduating this month, I wanted to share my graduation story, and how I had to pick myself instead …

Vision and big thinking often cripples people in the process of doing the work. We tend to come up with an idea, and then blow it up so big in our minds that it hinders us from moving forward with the smaller things that make up the actual work. We start with an idea, let’s say it’s an idea for …

About 8 months after graduation, I had a thought to write a book about animation for beginners (creatively titled – Animation For Beginners.) That book later on became an Amazon #1 Bestseller under Animation (and some other categories for a few days). It still sells copies everyday (despite being priced on the higher end of the pricing spectrum at $29.) …

Stop being embarrassed about pursuing your own thing. You feel like there’s a magnifying glass above you, created by your family and friends, but there isn’t one. Doing the traditional route of getting a nice job is easy, because nobody can ever point to it and say “this is stupid.” Nobody will raise their eyebrows at getting a job as an …

I had lunch with a friend of mine recently who told me he had a great idea for a small business. This friend has been stuck in a 9-5 job for a few years now and has been playing with the idea of starting a side business for a while. After we started talking he told me that he’s not as excited about …

This post is about why domain or brand names don’t matter. If you’ve ever started a company, or thought about doing so, you’ve probably spend a good amount of time coming up with the “perfect” domain name. Naming your brand is hard. It’s like naming your child. I really like coming up with names for things, and I spend quite a …